Elham is currently a professor at the University of Washington where she has worked since 1999. During all this time, she has been lucky to work with hundreds of teachers, instructional coaches, principals, and professional educators to continue to build her understanding of children’s thinking and the way schools are organized to support both teachers and students to learn. Elham’s first research project sparked her interest in how teachers lead mathematical discussions in classrooms that honor children’s ideas. Her graduate work culminated with the opportunity to work with Megan Franke and two other doctoral students to facilitate after school workgroup meetings with teams of teachers in one school to study their students’ thinking by examining student work.
